Text by l'abbé Millot, written for the use of students at l'Ecole Royale Militaire. Plates are those prepared for Etienne-André Philippe de Prétot's Le spectacle de l'histoire romaine (not in BN). See "Avertissement du libraire," p. v

Previously published by Nyon l'aîné in 1777 and 1787. See BN

Signatures: pi⁴ A-2A⁴

Frontispiece etched by Pierre François Tardieu after Jean-Baptiste Piauger. Some plates bear dates ranging from 1760 to 1765. They are etched chiefly by Tardieu (others by Pierre-Alexandre Aveline, François-Antoine Aveline, Pierre Chenu, Pierre François Courtois, P.N. Gaucher, Louis Le Grand, Pierre Charles Lévesque, [Jean-Baptiste or Auguste] de Lorraine, Elie Du Mesnil, Pelletier, Pierre Nicolas Ransonnette). Many are after drawings by Gabriel de Saint Aubin (others by Benjamin Bolomey, Charles Eisen, Hubert François Gravelot, Augustin de Saint Aubin)

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In Getty copy plates [I-III], [V], [XII], [XIV-XVI] show varying amounts of hand coloring

Binding: marbled paper, back and corners in goatskin. Gilt title on spine label. Edges sprinkled red

Hand-colored bookplate with monogram GP on front pastedown by Samuel Anderson (1773-1857, Swedish engraver and type founder). Gravure bookplate of Oscar Ladner on facing flyleaf, dated 1916, Wien

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